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Five Mobile Fails: How Banks and Financial Services Institutions
Can Avoid Pitfalls in Mobile Strategy and Execution
At this point, every major enterprise recognizes the need
for a mobile strategy. But where do you begin when you
don’t have years of experience with the data, processes,
and use cases of mobile?
To give you a head start, we present five common mobile
“fails”we have observed. We focus on examples from the
banking and financial services (BFS) industry, but the bulk
of our insights apply across all industries. Whether you’re
designing mobile applications, producing mobile
promotions, or mobile-enabling your website, you need a
mobile strategy, so we offer a proposed framework for
devising a holistic strategy that embraces mobile’s
transformative potential.

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About the Author
Tonya McKInney
Head of Digital Strategy Consulting and Solutions, TCS
Tonya McKinney has spent more than a decade innovating and executing
integrated, digital marketing practices and programs at companies such as
Computer Associates, SBC and Siebel. She has worked with organizations and
firms that were first in their space to introduce and execute social strategies and
has helped organizations innovate, develop and deliver digital/social offerings to
the market place.
Ms. McKinney has been actively involved in the launch of solutions that leverage
Social Media and Digital Strategy across a range of core business functions such as
Human Resources, Research and Development, and Education, Sales, and Support.
Many of these solutions focused on leveraging social platforms and programs to
interact, exchange information, and connect to a larger internal and external
community while achieving business results and objectives.
Tonya has a Bachelor of Science in Advertising and Marketing from Texas Christian
University and a Master of Arts in Technical Communication from the University of
North Texas.

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Mobile Fail 1: Not Everything Moves
A mobile strategy can’t simply consist of creating mobile application and then
waiting for downloads to begin. Let’s face it: not everything (or everyone) moves.
There has to be a business case for the mobile app and its use.
Mobile Fail Case: Not Understanding Mobile in the Context of Hedge Fund
Managers
Our case in point is a hedge fund. The typical hedge fund manager spends close
to 14 hours at his desk, handling trades on one screen and monitoring financial
data feeds on another. Wanting to be at the competitive forefront, one company
created an app that essentially replicated desktop functionality for traders’iPads.
To the company’s surprise, the app was rarely used. The reason? There was no use
case for traders using the iPad app. After 14 hours in front of screens, the last thing
they needed was the same app on a mobile device. The company had based its
assumptions on general trends rather than specific trends observed among its
user population or specific objectives for the business.
Mobile Save: Lessons from Television’s‘Second Screen’Approach for Hedge
Fund Managers
Given the propensity of hedge fund managers to toggle
between screens to make investment decisions, read email, and effect trades, one
possible use case could be to use the iPad for ancillary, second screen functions,
such as a news feed or SMS updates about trading activity in foreign markets.
Second screen is a digital model from television/entertainment where viewers are
watching a program but viewing secondary content on second or even third
screens on a mobile device to enhance their experience. Moving fact-response or
view-only activities to the iPad could free traders from distractions while
performing core work at their desks and provide them with valuable information
to consider when they leave the office.
Don’t rely on general trends to make investment decisions about
mobile apps and technology. Instead, your mobile strategy and execution must be
based on outcomes and a deep understanding of your particular users. And, don’t
forget that mobile has to be evaluated in context, and that by introducing mobile
devices, apps, and technology the context will alter.
Mobile Use Case Checklist:
Assess both current and future mobile device preferences. Mobile device
preferences are fast- moving and unique across cultures, generations, and
socioeconomic groups. Assess not only what your target group uses now, but
what they are most likely to use in the future. It may seem that everyone has
an iPhone but an older segment may rely more extensively on Blackberries
now and their next upgrade may be to a Microsoft device within 18 months.
Assess current and potential usage. How, when, and why is the user
population using mobility at home and at work now? What are the apps and
uses most adopted; even outside the industry? How are these likely to change
over the next few months and years?
Conduct field studies to define use cases. Ensure that mobile use cases are
well understood in context (user, interactions, process, environment). Evaluate
the need or potential of mobility by monitoring the users in their actual
Possible mobile save:
Lessons Learnt:
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environment, asking questions such as: How will processes change with
mobile? How will the mobile solution affect not only users but also those who
interact with users? For instance, does a mobile application enhance the
interaction between a financial advisor and a client or does the client feel
alienated by a perceived lack of focus from the advisor?
Small trials. Try a test case with a small, representative group of users and
iterate quickly vs. rolling it out to entire teams or segments.
According to Forrester Research, 47% of financial ebusiness managers say they
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don’t know how to measure mobile ROI. Typically, the lack of precedent for
measurement prevents most organizations from developing mobile-specific KPIs.
Many organizations just take traditional KPIs and apply them to mobile initiatives.
Others merely measure what is easy to measure or what they already measure,
often copied from web measures, such as“downloads”and“duration.”Very few
organizations have realized that the nature of mobility on-the-spot, multimedia
data capture—offers entirely new information that can bring unprecedented
insight to the company.
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Mobile Fail 2: No Mobile Metrics
Saga: An Example of Unique Use Cases Based on Unique Mobile Data
Saga is a tool only possible with mobile. It collects persistent,
ambient data from your mobile device and
uses analytics to help you decide what to do next.
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2010 Q2 Global eBusiness and Channel Strategy Professional Online Survey, Forrester Research, Inc.

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New Measures from Mobile: The Power of ’Where’
The most obvious unique metric from mobile is‘where’. Consider how
geolocational information from mobile changes how you might measure and
analyze transactions and other customer behavior. Just as the rise of ecommerce
created new metrics such as ’shopping cart abandonment’, mobile adds another
dimension,‘where’. Now you can know the customer’s location when he or she is
abandoning the cart or failing to complete an online account transfer.
A bank trying to determine whether to retain an ATM or branch location has
powerful decision-making insight with mobile data. What is the timing, location,
frequency, and type of financial activity completed on a mobile device, e.g.
electronic check deposit at home using a mobile device camera vs. the ATM two
blocks away? Knowing that customers are more inclined to conduct certain
transactions at home, as opposed to at a Starbucks for example, is valuable
information that could affect the design of an application, the location of a
branch, a business process, or advertising placement.
Besides geolocation, there are other types of new data from mobile phones to
consider: audio, video, and social sharing. A simple exercise to help you
understand the value of the new data and insight from mobile is to mix and match
the new data types with the traditional data types.
Understand the unique data opportunities with mobile and
develop mobile-specific metrics. Map the value of mobile insights across the
business: from timing online promotions, to placing print ads, to determining
where to put branches.
Lesson Learnt:
Unique Mobile Data Offers New Opportunities for Analysis
Mobile Data Traditional
Banking location Account Type
Transaction timing Lifestage
Previous transaction Transaction History
Media types New Services
Mobile profiles Demographics
Mobile banking sharing Financial goals and progress
Social banking content Account consolidation
Combining the new data types from mobile devices
with traditional data can drive new insights from analytics

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Mobile Measurement Checklist:
Align mobile targets to support strategic outcomes.
Map the mobile actions and behaviors that drive your outcomes.
Understand the insight needed from mobile in order to take the action.
Document the mobile data that can drive the analytics insight, you’ll find that
more insight can be uncovered because more or better data can be collected.
Set KPIs and objectives, even if you’re not sure they’re the right ones.
Make sure data architecture, storage, and analysis can incorporate mobile
device information, including persistent location data, audio, images, and
video.
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Working from Outcomes to Define Mobile KPIs
Outcomes
Mobile
Actions
Mobile
Insight
Mobile
Data
Begin with your outcomes and work through mobile actions,
insight, and data to get to those outcomes, taking into consideration
the unique data provided by mobile.
Sample KPIs for Mobile Banking
Customers Adopting
Mobile banking
Mobile and Customer
Acquisition /
Retention
Mobile Sales and
Marketing
Mobile and Service
Cost
- Number of downloads
- Type and frequency of mobile transactions
- Time spent on the app
- Location and time the app is used
- Social recommendations for the app
- Number of new customers
- Number of new customers from new segments
- Rate of customer attrition
- Promotion responses via mobile
- New services sold (such as credit cards)
- Annual revenue per customer or account
- Number of accounts consolidated
- Social and peer engagement
- Reduced support calls
- Reduced support costs
- Faster issue resolution
- Issues resolved via mobile versus other channels
- Mobile cost per user
Objectives KPI

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Mobile Fail 3: Competitive Cloning
Rushing a mobile offering to market just because competitors have one is not a
mobile strategy. According to Javelin Strategy & Research, more than 70% of
American Banker Executive Forum members cited ’competitive pressure’as the
main driver for their mobile initiatives .
Fail Case: Equal Opportunity Mediocrity in Mobile
A large number of mobile investment research applications hit the market as
competitors scrambled to float competing products. Most delivered the same
content, in the same format as their websites, without added functionality that
leveraged the mobile device, format, or use case. Un-surprisingly, adoption was
disappointing.
The top 20 banking apps in the Apple App Store are virtually indistinguishable,
using similar icons and colors and providing little differentiation in user
experience. But boring interfaces aren’t the only issue. Neal O’Farrell, director of
the Identity Theft Council, said that there was a rush of mobile banking apps to
capture market share. Now people realize security is as much of a priority as
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convenience.
Launching a low-value mobile solution means users review the app poorly and it
becomes that much more difficult to lure users back to a new or revamped app.
Mobile Save: Making the Most of the Device
A Citibank iPad app launched during the race to get mobile account apps into the
market, but it was a notable exception because it continued where the
competition left off. The app had several advantages, but the most striking was its
use of the iPad visual interface for high impact graphics that display spending
trends and provide helpful budgeting and financial planning advice. The Citibank
app has swept awards, monopolized press coverage, and even lured the leery
online: at one point, more than 5,000 Citi customers who previously had no digital
accounts with the firm had downloaded the app. This well-designed app created a
new channel of engagement for the bank, and set the industry benchmark for
more than a year.
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Eileen Courter,“Mobile Security Still a Race Between Bad Guys and Good Guys,”Credit Union Times, August 5, 2012,
http://web1.cutimes.com/2012/08/05/mobile-security-still-a-race-between-bad-guys-and.
Citibank’s Banking iPhone App Delivered Functionality Unique to Mobile
Citi’s iPad app attracted 5,000 customers with no prior digital relationship.

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The Next Copycat Trend: Gamification
Recently, many companies have become enamored with game mechanics, which
can drive behavior and loyalty among customers, if correctly applied. We fully
anticipate a rush of financial games and gaming functionality to hit mobile in the
next year. But we caution the reader: gamification is powerful but game
mechanics must be aligned to your goals and users, not just plugged in because
your competitor has a game.
Just consider the boomerang behavior a California energy company experienced
after they tried scoring and comparing neighborhood energy use. Households
that previously scored higher on conserving energy, noted they were saving more
energy than their neighbors, and instead of continuing, began to relax their
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conservation efforts. So, in this case, using game mechanics triggered the
opposite of hoped-for behavior. The team adjusted their approach, and even
continued using some game concepts to better effect—a simple smiley face
badge helped reverse the boomerang effect. Gamification must reflect a deep
understanding of user behavior, psychographics, and behavior theory in order to
provide business value and drive engagement and loyalty.
Don’t follow the crowd when developing your mobile apps, unless
it’s a crowd of customers. Make your own assessment and understand the needs
of the user, along with the outcomes you hope to achieve. Keeping up with Jones
Co. is not a strategy.
Mobile Experience Checklist:
At a minimum, read the reviews of competitors’apps so you don’t repeat their
mistakes.
Express your brand in mobile. Which unique and valued brand aspects can you
recreate and reinforce via mobile capabilities? More choice? Friendly service?
Helpful information?
Get into the field—yes, field studies again. Truly impactful mobile use cases
seldom reveal themselves while you sit in a conference room or a usability lab.
Go see what people really do and want to do when they are mobile.
Even if you’re providing basic functionality, leverage the innate and unique
capabilities of the mobile device to meet customer needs in new ways and
differentiate yourself from the competition. Consider ’what if’scenario
calculators and supporting information that help customers make smarter
financial decisions.
Lesson Learnt:
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Michael G. Pollitt and Irina Shaorshadze, "The Role of Behavioural Economics in Energy and Climate Policy,
" ESRC Electricity Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge, December 2011.

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Mobile Fail 4: Watch Out for App Bunnies
Lesson Learnt:
Mobile apps have a tendency to multiply. A line of business or functional
department can easily hire a mobile development firm to create an application for
a nominal fee. But that application may have very little regard for corporate
security and governance and could wind up generating a huge total cost of
ownership (TCO). An organization with just 10 mobile applications, built for three
platforms, with two updates per year is an organization with 60 mobile projects
per year.
Siloed, disconnected applications indicate the company is not thinking holistically
about the customer experience. Uncoordinated customer mobile applications
create new customer touchpoints that are not integrated into the larger customer
experience. Mobile often disrupts existing business processes. Without a central
management approach or enterprise standards, the customer experience is
uneven, security holes are opened, and money is wasted.
It’s best to catch this fail early, because weeding and consolidating mobile apps
later can alienate your early adopters. It’s better to get a mobile strategy and a
Center of Excellence in place as early as possible rather than creating apps
scattershot and incurring the expense of consolidating them later.
Note that the problem is not necessarily having multiple mobile apps. For
example, Spanish bank La Caixa has taken advantage of the enormous appeal of
the Apple Store to create its own App Store where it offers more than 40
applications, each targeted to a different segment according to its demographic
profile and financial needs. This is part of a strategy based on extensive customer
research, not a lack of planning and governance.
Mobile applications can be relatively cheap to build, but without
planning, are expensive to secure, govern, and maintain. More importantly,
uncontrolled app growth creates a disjointed customer experience. Rolling back
functionality later or combining mismatched apps doesn’t endear you to
customers. A collection of mobile apps needs to be managed centrally, with firm-
wide governance and data and integration standards.
Mobile Experience Checklist:
Create a Mobility Center of Excellence
A Mobility Center of Excellence centralizes program management, research and
development, and prototyping while ensuring the priorities of audience,
governance, and security.
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Mobile App Math: Exponential Costs
App bunnies multiply and so do their costs.
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Mobile
apps
Mobile
platforms
Annual
Updates
Annual Mobile
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Mobile Fail 5: Mobile Myopia
In the rush to meet the mobile expectations of consumers (as well as
management, press, and analysts), many companies make the mistake of focusing
on mobile in isolation, separate from other channels, programs, and business
processes. We see a distinct lack of integration with both traditional channels such
as branches, advisors, and call centers as well as emerging channels such as social
media. Companies also have a tendency to see mobile as a point solution, without
seeing the impact of the value of applying mobile capabilities to a process from
end-to-end.
Fail Case: Failing to See the Combined Power of Mobile and Social
Very few banking or financial services institutions, as of this publication date, have
integrated their mobile and social channels much further than ’share’or ’like’.
Banking and social are both in the top 10 of mobile activities, so it only makes
sense to integrate your institution’s banking and social activities on mobile.
However few institutions have adopted this approach.
One notable exception is Australia’s s Commonwealth Bank, which has launched
an iPhone application that allows customers to perform banking transactions,
such as paying others and receiving payments, via Facebook contacts.
TCS Mobility Center of Excellence Model
A Mobility Center of Excellence helps stamp out
’app bunnies’without hindering innovation
Program / Project
Management
Architecture
Mobility Strategy
Mobile Analytics
Performance Engg.
User Experience
Design
Mobile Application
Dev & Maintenance
Mobile Application
Testing
Production Support
Mobile Environment
Management
User Experience
Design
R & D
Rapid
Prototypes
Customer
Delivery
Excellence
Managed
Services
Thought
Leadership
Joint
Governance
Strategy Technology
Full Services Mobility CoE
Continuous Improvement

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The industry’s social myopia is as prevalent as mobile myopia, most mobile to
social integration efforts are concentrated on Facebook and Twitter, overlooking
richer more established financial conversations. Social Media Explorer’s
Conversation Report: What Consumers Are Saying About Banking noted forums as
the runaway favorite for banking social engagement:“90% of the (banking)
conversations studied (during the 2011 calendar year) took place on forums and
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message boards—not Facebook, not Twitter, not blogs.”
Mobile Rejuvenation of Traditional Channels and Processes
The other‘blind spot’of mobile myopia is failing to see or map the full impact of
mobile on traditional channels and processes. Combining mobile capabilities with
these areas can unlock value. This fail, like Fail 4, creates disjointed customer
touchpoints as well as disjointed processes.
An integrated approach can make great improvements in customer
experience, such as integrating mobile with in-person channels. Mobile can keep
branch staff and advisors informed without sitting at a computer, allowing them
to serve and interact successfully with more customers.
Multichannel:
Commonwealth Banks’CommBank Kaching iPhone application
integrates payments to Facebook friends.
“The bank (Commonwealth) has
demonstrated a beta Facebook
banking application that will allow
customers to do all their banking
transactions, including paying others
and collecting money without leaving
the social network.”
Social banking on the way
July 6. 2012
The Age
Lia Timson
http://www.theage.com.au/it-
pro/business-it/social-banking-on-the-
way-20120705-
21jrh.html#ixzz20nsIl3Xm
Integrated Mobile and Social Banking
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Jason Falls, "Bulk Of Social Conversations In Banking Aren't On Facebook And Twitter," The Financial Brand.com,
August 29, 2012, http://thefinancialbrand.com/24881/social-media-banking-engagement-in-forums/.

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End-to-End Process:
Lesson Learnt:
Consider the potential mobile has to offer for well established
processes such as fraud. The first mobile projects were mobile customer alerts of
potential fraud and mobile location data to trigger an improper transaction flag if
a customer suddenly heads for Switzerland, for example. But consider the value of
applying mobile - and other digital capabilities - to the end-to-end process.
Evaluate the entire set of users and processes in the fraud function. For instance,
the fraud investigation personnel have many mobile use cases from mobile case
alerts and suspect location data, as well as mobile data collection power to
improve prosecution (recall the Saga example mentioned in Mobile Case 2).
Make sure you’re thinking about mobile holistically across
traditional and emerging channels, across the entire customer experience, and
across end-to-end business processes.
Mobile Experience Checklist:
Consider these combinations as examples of the multiple dimensions that must
be considered when formulating a mobile strategy.
Mobile + social: 60% of mobile users access social media from their
smartphones. Mobile and social cannot be governed by separate strategies.
Mobile + cloud: The proliferation of data generated by mobile devices, as well
as the management of the devices themselves, necessitates a cloud approach.
Mobile + big data: How will you capture, store, and manage the mobile data,
such as location and unstructured information? All must be considered as part
of a broader data-management strategy.
Mobile + analytics: What new insights can be gained from collecting data
from mobile devices and apps?
Mobile + traditional channels: How does mobile impact traditional channels,
such as call centers or branch banking?
Mobile + end-to-end processes: How does a mobile project affect process?
How can an entire process be improved though digital and mobile
capabilities?
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How to Succeed: A Holistic Mobile Strategy
Developing a holistic mobile strategy means aligning and integrating mobile into
the enterprise digital strategy. The Framework is designed to prevent siloed,
isolated digital approaches and instead ensure that digital innovation and
benefits are realized across the entire organization: all functions, processes,
channels, and audiences.
TCS Digital Enterprise Strategy Framework ensures mobile capabilities are
considered and applied to all four areas of the enterprise.
Holistic, Integrated Innovation
This framework also ensures that mobile strategy and efforts align and leverage
efforts in other digital areas: social, mobile, big data, and cloud—and that all
channels are in alignment.
n Mobile enables cross-ecosystem
engagement
n Mobile enabled ecosystem
reengineering
n Relationship ecosystem on Mobile
platforms
n Mobile enablement of
linkages/processes
n New insights from instrumented
channels
n Digitization of traditional products
and services - Mobile as a delivery
channel, an offering, and packaging
n Mobile opens the innovation
process to all stakeholders
n Go-to-market shifts to mobile and
expands channels to market
n Access to new market segments -
Generational shift of buyer
n Rapid competition from new
market entrants
n Employees transforming too
n Social/mobile-based recruiting
n Mobile crowd/game mechanics for
performance drivers anywhere, any
time
n Attrition - early indicators in mobile
data
n Mobile providing new or extended
value within the ecosystem
n Competitive threats - mobile lowers
barriers
n Glocalization (Globalization /
Localization) - Mobile creates a
stakeholder
n Smart technology expands
product/service opportunities
n Integration of customers in service
delivery
n Mobile as a differentiator
n Mobile data and analytics to
manage portfolio
n New markets opened by mobile -
fast access to emerging markets by
segment or country
n Peer-to-peer influence
n Operating models shifting to high
engagement
n Mobile as an enabler of next
generation efficiency
Value
Ecosystem
Products
and
Services
Go-to-
Market
Culture
and
Organization
Using this framework ensures that you align strategy across all areas
TCS Digital Enterprise Strategy Framework

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InviteDisruptiveInnovation
FocusonInnovation-enabledGrowth
ReassessPortfoliosImproveCustomerRelationships
PersonalizeRelationships
Grow
Revenue
ContinuouslyReviseStrategy
ImproveDecisionspeed&Accuracy
DriveOperationalAgility
PursueOptimalActions
Score
Score
Score
Score
Score
Innovation Customer Centricity Operational Excellence
Initiative 1
Initiative 2
Initiative 3
Initiative 4
Initiative 5
Scoring mobile initiatives can help prioritize efforts
Score Each Mobile Initiatives for Strategic Alignment
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Conclusion
As with anything, there are no guarantees of success at the outset of an enterprise
mobile strategy. This is a new field, with new KPIs and no pre-determined
outcomes. However, when compared to ’safe’initiatives, such as website re-
platforming and ERP and CRM refreshes, embarking on a holistic mobile strategy
can propel an organization far past incremental gains into truly transformational
events. With a healthy amount of research, strategic thinking, and a willingness to
’fail forward’in small iterations, combined with an appreciation of unexpected
discoveries, benefits will accrue.